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I am a researcher working on the intersection of musicology, sound studies and media studies. In my work, I explore the relations between music, sound, and media from the nineteenth century to the present. Current research projects involve the history of the conceptualisation of sounds in terms of their ‘spectrum,’ and the relation between sound and pseudoscience from the nineteenth century onward.
My first monograph The Logic of Filtering. How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. It’s available for free Open Access download here. Together with Jan Nieuwenhuis, I wrote a book on German experimental music pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten’s 1981 debut album Kollaps to be published in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Europe-series in 2024.
I published extensively on music, sound and popular culture, both academically and for wider audiences. I obtained my PhD in 2017 at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the role of noise in sound recording and subsequently worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Music and Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, as part of the ERC funded research project Sound and Materialism in the Nineteenth Century.
Besides my academic work, I’m an experienced advisor and consultant in the academic and cultural sectors, currently working as senior policy advisor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). I also perform and record as a musician.
